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Mamma mia, senza ritegno e senza vergogna. Hanno subito incolpato la Russia, senza nemmeno fare indagini. Psicopatie Europee, siamo allo sbando totale. Che incapaci.

Confusione totale.
Drone qui, drone là… alla fine si sparano tra loro, mentre la Russia si gode lo spettacolo seduta in prima fila...ridicoli.



Forgotten Internet: The Story of Email


It is a common occurrence in old movies: Our hero checks in at a hotel in some exotic locale, and the desk clerk says, “Ah, Mr. Barker, there’s a letter for you.” Or maybe a telegram. Either way, since humans learned to write, they’ve been obsessed with getting their writing in the hands of someone else. Back when we were wondering what people would do if they had a computer in their homes, most of us never guessed it would be: write to each other. Yet that turned out to be the killer app, or, at least, one of them.

What’s interesting about the hotel mail was that you had to plan ahead and know when your recipient would be there. Otherwise, you had to send your note to their home address, and it would have to wait. Telegrams were a little better because they were fast, but you still had to know where to send the message.

Early Days

An ad from the 1970s with a prominent Telex number
In addition to visiting a telegraph office, or post office, to send a note somewhere, commercial users started wanting something better at the early part of the twentieth century. This led to dedicated teletype lines. By 1933, though, a network of Teletype machines — Telex — arose. Before the Internet, it was very common for a company to advertise its Telex number — or TWX number, a competing network from the phone company and, later, Western Union — if they dealt with business accounts.

Fax machines came later, and the hardware was cheap enough that the average person was slightly more likely to have a fax machine or the use of one than a Telex.

Computers


It is hard to remember, but through much of this time, you were probably more likely to have access to a fax machine than a computer that was connected to anyone outside of your immediate office. In 1962, MIT’s Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) had a way for users to share files, and, of course, they did. By 1962, the IBM 1440 could send messages from terminal to terminal. Not really email, but it was a start.

People sharing files on CTSS led to a MAIL command by 1965. Each user had a local file called, in a fit of originality, MAIL BOX. Anyone could append messages to the file, but only the owner could read or edit it. Other early systems got the idea quickly.

By 1971, ARPANET — the granddaddy of the Internet — got SNDMSG to handle mail between networked computers. It could also transfer files. Each address had a local part and a remote hostname. In between? The “@” sign. The first message went between two PDP-10 machines that were in sight of each other. The developer, Ray Tomlinson, is often credited with inventing modern email. He would continue to drive mail innovation as part of the International Network Working Group.

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Tomlinson’s program caused an explosion of similar mail programs. Unix had one. IBM was developing what would eventually become its office suite for mainframe computers. The University of Illinois had PLATO IV, which offered, among other things, mail.

The Rest of the World


In 1978, CompuServe started offering mail, primarily aimed at commercial customers. In the next year, they’d launch MicroNET, allowing people to dial into a computer to, among other things, send and receive mail.

By 1981, Compuserve rebranded its mail service as EMAIL, although it probably wasn’t the first to coin that term. That same year, IBM rolled out its internal system to the rest of the world. PROFS was widely used in the business world, and it wasn’t uncommon to hear people say they “sent you a PROFS.”

The biggest differentiator, of course, was if you could send mail to other people using your (presumably big) computer, other people on your network, or anywhere. There were plenty of schemes to get local mail off the local machine, like UUCP, for example.

The 1980s saw an explosion of LANs that had their own servers, and these usually offered, at least, local mail services. Of course, you could also buy software from Microsoft, Lotus, or others to provide mail.

The Internet


Back then, normal people didn’t have access to the Internet. That’s how companies like CompuServe, and their main competitor The Source, managed to entice people to sign up for services. They would often have gateways to other mail systems and, eventually, the Internet, too. But 1985 would see the formation of Quantum Link. Never heard of them? Maybe you’ll remember in 1989 when they changed their name to America Online and, later, AOL.

For whatever reason, AOL took over that market. By 1995, AOL had around three million active users, and its signature “You’ve got mail!” audio clip, voiced by the late Elwood Edwards, was a cultural icon. In addition to email, it pioneered instant messaging and flooded the market with free trial disks.

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Of course, people started getting access to the actual Internet, so all the specialized mail providers suffered.

Milestones


The first head of state to send an email? Queen Elizabeth II, back in 1976. Jimmy Carter was the first known presidential candidate to use email in 1976. Astronauts on the Space Shuttle (STS-43 in 1991) were the first to send email from space. It was pretty complicated, as Scott Manley discusses in the video below.

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Less inspiring, Gary Thuerk sent the first spam message over ARPANET in 1978. The topic? A new product for DEC.

Modern Mail


Modern mail primarily relies on SMTP, IMAP, and, sometimes POP. Surprisingly, these protocols date back to the early 1980s, but were mostly part of the ARPANET until the Internet opened up.

Of course, the protocols have changed with time. E-mail needed to adapt to TCP/IP and DNS. Today, the protocols have provisions for validating senders to help stop spam, as well as to encrypt messages. But at the core, the technology that moves mail around the Internet is mostly unchanged. The nice thing: you can send to someone without knowing where they’ll be and when they’ll be there. Mr. Barker doesn’t have to get a packet from the front desk anymore.


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Incitamento al suicidio e OpenAI. Introdotte nuove misure di sicurezza per ChatGPT


OpenAI ha annunciato nuove misure di sicurezza per ChatGPT in seguito a una serie di tragiche storie e cause legali che accusavano il chatbot di coinvolgimento in suicidi di adolescenti. Il sistema tenterà ora di determinare l’età della persona con cui sta chattando e, se necessario, richiederà un documento d’identità per confermare che l’utente abbia più di 18 anni. L’azienda ha riconosciuto che ciò limita la privacy degli adulti, ma ha ritenuto il compromesso giustificato per motivi di sicurezza .

Il CEO di OpenAI, Sam Altman, ha dichiarato di non aspettarsi un’approvazione unanime per queste misure, ma di considerarle necessarie nel contesto del crescente conflitto sulla regolamentazione dell’intelligenza artificiale. Questa decisione è stata influenzata da una serie di incidenti di alto profilo.

Ad agosto, i genitori di un adolescente di nome Adam Reid hanno intentato una causa, sostenendo che ChatGPT lo aveva aiutato a scrivere una lettera di suicidio, consigliandogli metodi alternativi e scoraggiandolo dal condividere i suoi sentimenti con gli adulti. Nello stesso mese, il Wall Street Journal ha riportato la notizia di un uomo di 56 anni che si è suicidato dopo aver comunicato con un bot che ha alimentato la sua paranoia. E il Washington Post ha riportato una nuova causa in cui i genitori hanno attribuito al servizio Character AI la morte di una ragazza di 13 anni.

OpenAI ha precedentemente implementato il controllo parentale in ChatGPT, ma ora ha inasprito le regole. Per i minorenni, il chatbot funzionerà secondo principi diversi: rifiuterà i flirt ed escluderà discussioni su suicidio e autolesionismo, anche in contesti artistici. Se il sistema rileva pensieri pericolosi in un adolescente, tenterà di contattare i suoi genitori e, se ciò fosse impossibile e pericoloso per la vita, contatterà i servizi di emergenza.

OpenAI ha riconosciuto di trovarsi di fronte a un problema fondamentale con i modelli linguistici di grandi dimensioni. Nelle sue fasi iniziali, ChatGPT era severo, rifiutando molti argomenti, ma la crescente concorrenza di soluzioni “non censurate” e locali, nonché la pressione dei critici della censura, hanno costretto l’azienda ad allentare i suoi filtri.

Ora, l’azienda ha cambiato rotta: vuole offrire agli utenti adulti la massima libertà senza causare danni o limitare i diritti altrui. Anche altre piattaforme stanno adottando iniziative simili: quest’estate YouTube ha annunciato l’intenzione di utilizzare algoritmi di apprendimento automatico per stimare l’età degli spettatori e proteggere gli adolescenti da determinate categorie di contenuti.

L'articolo Incitamento al suicidio e OpenAI. Introdotte nuove misure di sicurezza per ChatGPT proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.



#Trump-GB, sudditi e complici


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Next Cybersecurity: Combatti l’intelligenza artificiale con l’Intelligenza Artificiale


A Kunming, nella provincia dello Yunnan, in Cina sud-occidentale, si è svolto il Forum sulla Governance della Sicurezza dell’Intelligenza Artificiale, inserito nella Settimana Nazionale della Pubblicità sulla Sicurezza Informatica 2025.

L’evento ha offerto un’occasione di confronto sui rischi e le sfide legati all’IA, sulle misure di governance e sugli sviluppi legati alla sicurezza delle applicazioni e degli algoritmi. Ricercatori, tecnici e rappresentanti dei diversi settori hanno condiviso esperienze e risultati pratici, evidenziando come l’IA stia rivoluzionando numerosi ambiti, compreso quello della sicurezza informatica.

Alla fiera dedicata alla sicurezza, i tecnici hanno sottolineato come le grandi aziende siano ormai esposte a una vasta gamma di attacchi informatici. Le minacce spaziano da quelle più comuni, come gli attacchi alle applicazioni web, a forme più sofisticate e difficili da individuare, come le comunicazioni Trojan che crittografano interi canali prima di colpire.

Il tecnico Zou Hong, intervenuto durante l’esposizione, ha spiegato che in passato la difesa informatica era basata principalmente su interventi manuali, con tempi di risposta lunghi e onerosi. L’introduzione dell’intelligenza artificiale ha invece permesso di strutturare sistemi di analisi più rapidi ed efficienti, grazie a modelli in grado di processare e suddividere gli avvisi di attacco su più livelli.

Zou ha illustrato un’architettura ibrida che combina modelli di dimensioni diverse per effettuare uno screening a tre livelli, capace di ridurre il rumore degli avvisi con un’efficacia superiore al 98%. Questo approccio consente di distinguere gli attacchi realmente pericolosi da quelli irrilevanti, concentrando gli sforzi sulle minacce più concrete.

Per i casi che richiedono ancora analisi manuali, l’intelligenza artificiale di grandi dimensioni può contribuire in maniera decisiva, fornendo supporto nell’individuazione e nella tracciabilità delle fonti degli attacchi. In questo modo, i processi di difesa e risposta risultano ulteriormente velocizzati.

Una volta raccolti i dati e analizzate le informazioni, i tecnici redigono rapporti dettagliati che vengono trasmessi agli organi di pubblica sicurezza e ai dipartimenti nazionali competenti. Ciò garantisce un coordinamento istituzionale e una gestione strutturata delle minacce informatiche.

Infine, i tecnici hanno richiamato l’attenzione sull’uso improprio dell’IA da parte dei criminali, che sfruttano grandi modelli per lanciare attacchi. La risposta, secondo Zou Hong, è affidarsi a un approccio speculare: utilizzare l’intelligenza artificiale per combattere l’intelligenza artificiale.

Addestrando i modelli a riconoscere frequenze e schemi degli attacchi, è possibile mobilitare i dispositivi di sicurezza per intercettarli automaticamente e garantire una difesa più solida.

L'articolo Next Cybersecurity: Combatti l’intelligenza artificiale con l’Intelligenza Artificiale proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.



Drop charges against Cincinnati journalists before upcoming trial


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Jury trials of journalists arrested while reporting news are exceedingly rare in the United States. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a project of Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) that maintains data on press freedom violations nationwide, has documented only nine in its history.

The next two are scheduled to take place in Kenton County, Kentucky, in just a couple weeks. Journalists Madeline Fening and Lucas Griffith, both of whom were arrested while covering a protest on July 17 for Cincinnati-based CityBeat (Griffith is a student journalist at the University of Cincinnati who interned at CityBeat), are set to be tried Sept. 30 and Oct. 2, respectively. In an unfortunate irony, the protest was in opposition to the immigration detention of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled Egypt to escape persecution for his journalism.

A coalition of press freedom organizations and Cincinnati journalism professors sent a letter to the prosecutor, County Attorney Stacy Tapke, urging her office to drop the case. As the letter explains, when journalists are mistakenly arrested while covering protests, prosecutors usually decline to bring charges because they recognize that protests and their aftermath are newsworthy and journalists reporting on them are just doing their constitutionally protected jobs.

When prosecutors nonetheless push forward with these kinds of censorial charges, the cases often end in a dismissal and a civil settlement paid to the reporter, and those responsible are forced to explain why they wasted taxpayer funds trying to criminalize journalism.

Below are comments from representatives of several press freedom organizations that signed the letter, as well as from journalism professors at the University of Cincinnati (speaking in their individual capacities).

Comment from press freedom advocates

Seth Stern, director of advocacy at FPF, said, “With no end to civil unrest on the horizon, it’s more important now than ever that journalists are allowed to cover how police respond to protests. Officers engaged in misconduct have every incentive to disperse the press, which is precisely why the Department of Justice and courts have said that they can’t be allowed to do so. Even temporary detainments have a chilling effect, but putting journalists on trial for routine newsgathering is simply un-American. We hope prosecutors do the right thing without further delay.

Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), said, “Despite the National Press Photographers Association having spent over a decade providing training to police regarding the First Amendment rights of journalists, it is disturbing that some officers and agencies have not learned to respect those rights. We sincerely hope that the county attorney will remedy this wrong by heeding our request to dismiss the remaining charges and not add insult to injury.”

Anne Marie Tamburro, press freedom strategist at the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), said, “It is inexcusable that journalists in the United States are being put on trial for exercising their First Amendment rights. We urge Kenton County officials to drop all charges and ensure that journalists can do their jobs of keeping the public informed without unwarranted interference from law enforcement.”

Katherine Jacobsen, U.S., Canada, and Caribbean Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), said, “It is concerning to see that two journalists are facing jury trials in relation to their reporting activity. Journalism is not a crime, and reporters should not be punished for covering matters of public interest.”

Comment from journalism professors

Alfred J. Cotton III, director of undergraduate studies, associate professor-educator, journalism at the University of Cincinnati, said, “Lucas Griffith is one of the best student journalists on this campus. He’s a former student of mine, and I believe wholeheartedly in his integrity and dedication to pursuing the truth. I stand with the call to drop the charges against him and Madeline Fening.”

Victoria LaPoe, department head of the Department of Journalism at the University of Cincinnati, said, “While I cannot speak on behalf of the university, I can speak for myself and my personal views. As a former journalist — specifically a television producer who would get out of the newsroom and on the ground to cover trials, protests, and breaking news — I witnessed firsthand how quickly situations can turn chaotic. I believe what is truly at risk here are core constitutional freedoms. The precedent this could set is deeply troubling. Journalists serve as the eyes and ears of an event, allowing citizens to be informed and make their own decisions. I hope it is beyond question that, in this situation, a journalist — and a student intern — should not face such severe charges for simply attempting to serve their community.”

Jenny Wohlfarth, a professor-educator in the Department of Journalism at the University of Cincinnati, added, “Newsgathering is a protected right under the First Amendment. What’s at stake here is not just these two reporters’ fates, but also the fundamental constitutional rights of a free press that are protected for all of us under the First Amendment. In helping prepare the journalists of tomorrow, we educators must teach our students the value of a free press, why it’s so critically important in a democracy, and how they must uphold the highest ethical standards in covering news events, both near and far. Without journalists to cover events like this, the public loses access to credible and accurate information that members of a free press routinely provide to help the public stay informed.”

The charges against the journalists originally included felony rioting, but that charge was dropped in July. The remaining misdemeanor charges against Fening includepressfreedomtracker.us/all-inc…disorderly conduct, obstructing an emergency responder, failure to disperse, unlawful assembly, and obstructing a highway or public passage. Griffith is charged with those offenses plus resisting arrest.

You can read the letter here or below. If you have questions or would like further comment, please reach out to FPF at media@freedom.press, NPPA at lawyer@nppa.org, SPJ at chendrie@hq.spj.org, or CPJ at press@cpj.org.

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L’altra faccia degli allevamenti intensivi: il sospetto della crudeltà

La forca viene imbracciata con forza e, con movimenti rapidi e decisi, le punte non affondano nel terreno agricolo ma nella carne delle mucche da latte. Siamo in un allevamento…
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Gaza City, 400 mila palestinesi in fuga. Ue: “Pronte sanzioni per Israele”

[quote]GAZA CITY – Alla fine, l’ufficialità, è arrivata. Le azioni di Israele, a Gaza, sono un vero e proprio genocidio. A stabilirlo, questa volta, sono gli investigatori indipendenti delle Nazioni…
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Per venerdì la CGIL ha proclamato uno sciopero generale per Gaza, in Toscana sarà di 8 ore.

Il concentramento del corteo è in P.zza Dalmazia alle 17:15.

#CGIL #Gaza

in reply to Matteo Bertini 🇮🇹 🌈

@Matteo Bertini 🇮🇹 🌈

Ma siamo tutti uniti nel voler fermare il genocidio, tutti manifestiamo contro l'aggressione di Israele, ci dividiamo su altri aspetti.

Che senso ha marciare insieme se io ho un cartello che dice "due popoli due stati" e un altro "Palestina libera dal fiume al mare"?

Daremo l'idea di essere uniti? Secondo me daremmo solo l'idea di essere un'armata Brancaleone.

Poi su iniziative molto particolari, come esprimere la propria vicinanza alla Global Flotilla che parte, trovarsi dalla stessa parte è molto più facile.

in reply to Max su Poliverso 🇪🇺🇮🇹

ho letto le motivazioni dello sciopero USB (non era Cobas come dicevo nel primo messaggio). Non trovo niente di divisivo. E chi trovi in piazza non lo puoi sapere prima, neache se organizzi tu. Più mi informo, più mi convinco che CIGL ha fatto una porcata, e spero che lo sciopero sia partecipato nonostante loro.

La situazione chiede a chiunque sia nella possibilità di fare qualcosa di farlo, sia per sé che per chi non può farlo.

#ScioperoGenerale #GlobalSumudFlotilla #Gaza

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@Matteo Bertini 🇮🇹 🌈

Mi sono informato, la ragione è quella che scrivevo qui sopra, c'è il timore che in questa manifestazione possano essere espresse posizioni o ci possano essere comportamenti che non sono in linea con i valori della CGIL.



L’appello di Padre Faltas, francescano a Gerusalemme: “A Gaza uno scandalo per l’umanità”

[quote]GERUSALEMME – Mentre il cielo di Gaza City si riempie di fumo per l’ennesimo attacco aereo israeliano, la città si svuota di tutto: ospedali distrutti, comunicazioni interrotte, carenza di medicinali…
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Nessun attacco a Poste Italiane: facciamo chiarezza sul presunto data breach


@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Un threat actor pubblica un post su un forum underground e mette in vendita oltre 1 milione di credenziali di utenti Poste Italiane: ma non c'è stato alcun attacco o furto di dati dell'azienda, piuttosto l'aggregazione di tante infezioni malware e




In Umbria sono state depositate all’Assemblea legislativa le 4.801 firme per “Liberi Subito”


Proprio in Umbria si svolgerà il XXII Congresso dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni: appuntamento per il 4 e 5 ottobre ad Orvieto

Nella stessa giornata, la Sardegna è diventata la seconda Regione italiana ad adottare la proposta di legge “Liberi subito”


Sono 4.801 le firme depositate questa mattina a Palazzo Cesaroni, a Perugia, a favore di Liberi Subito, la proposta di legge elaborata dall’Associazione Luca Coscioni per regolamentare i tempi di verifica delle condizioni e delle modalità per accedere all’aiuto medico alla morte volontaria. Presenti Filomena Gallo e Marco Cappato, Segretaria Nazionale e Tesoriere dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni, insieme a Matteo Mainardi, responsabile delle iniziative sul fine vita dell’Associazione e Stefano Massoli, marito di Laura Santi e coordinatore Cellula Coscioni Perugia.

Il deposito è avvenuto all’indomani dell’omaggio della città di Perugia a Laura Santi, volto della battaglia sul fine vita a livello nazionale e leader della campagna “Liberi Subito” in Umbria. Era stata proprio lei ad annunciare, il 9 luglio scorso, il raggiungimento della soglia minima delle firme necessarie per poter depositare il testo in Consiglio Regionale. Un risultato ottenuto in meno della metà del tempo a disposizione: la raccolta firme era partita infatti il 15 maggio scorso.

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La proposta di legge, promossa dall’Associazione Luca Coscioni in tutte le Regioni, si fonda sulla sentenza “Cappato – DJ Fabo” della Corte costituzionale, che ha depenalizzato l’aiuto al suicidio in casi ben determinati.

Approfondimento: Ecco cosa prevede il testo di Liberi Subito


Il testo prevede che il paziente venga preso in carico da una commissione multidisciplinare permanente che entro venti giorni dovrà verificare la presenza dei requisiti stabiliti dalla Corte attraverso una valutazione clinica e il parere del Comitato Etico. Una volta completata la verifica, la Regione dovrà garantire, entro sette giorni, il supporto tecnico e farmacologico necessario. L’intero percorso dovrà essere concluso entro un massimo di trenta giorni dalla richiesta. Inoltre, è garantita la gratuità delle prestazioni sanitarie collegate, senza costi aggiuntivi per il richiedente e senza nuovi oneri per il bilancio regionale.

I prossimi passaggi per arrivare alla discussione della legge in Umbria prevedono:

  1. ⁠Verifica della regolarità delle firme – entro 40 giorni
  2. ⁠Verifica di ammissibilità – entro 45 giorni dalla verbale che accerta la regolarità delle firme
  3. Discussione in Commissione e in Consiglio – entro 6 mesi

“L’accesso al suicidio medicalmente assistito è già consentito in Italia grazie a una sentenza della Corte costituzionale che ha valore di legge. Come Associazione Luca Coscioni, chiediamo che il Servizio sanitario regionale possa garantire risposte rapide alle richieste delle persone che soffrono, come previsto dalla sentenza costituzionale. In Toscana, la nostra proposta di legge è già stata approvata ed è entrata in vigore il 2 aprile, in Sardegna è stata approvata il 17 settembre, mentre in altre Regioni sono in corso discussioni simili. L’Umbria ha ora l’opportunità di partecipare a questo percorso istituzionale, volto a garantire il diritto alla libera scelta della persona, senza trasferire sui malati o sui tribunali la responsabilità di attuare un diritto già riconosciuto. Chiediamo quindi che la proposta venga inserita all’ordine del giorno e discussa quanto prima”, hanno dichiarato Filomena Gallo e Marco Cappato, Segretaria nazionale e Tesoriere dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni.

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American Science and Surplus Ends Online Sales


For nearly 90 years, American Science and Surplus has been shipping out weird and wonderful stuff to customers far and wide. In the pre-Internet days, getting their latest catalog in the mail — notable for its hand-drawn illustrations and whimsical style — was always exciting. From Romanian gas masks to odd-ball components, there was no telling what new wonders each issue would bring. In time, the printed catalog gave way to a website, but the eclectic offerings and hand-drawn images remained.

Unfortunately, those days are officially no more. Earlier this week, American Science and Surplus had to make the difficult decision to shutter their entire mail order division. It’s no secret that the company as a whole had been struggling over the last few years. Like many small businesses they were hit hard during the COVID-19 years, and while they made it through that particular storm, they faced skyrocketing operational costs.

Earlier this year, the company turned to crowd funding to help stay afloat. That they were able to raise almost $200,000 speaks to how much support they had from their community of customers, but while it put the company in a better position, the writing was on the wall. The warehouse space required to support their mail order operations was simply too expensive to remain viable.

But it’s not all bad news. At least two of the company’s physical storefronts, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Geneva, Illinois will remain open and operate under the ownership of the employees themselves. The fate of the third store in Park Ridge, Illinois is less clear. They currently don’t have a buyer, but it sounds like they haven’t given up hope of selling it yet.

Anyone in the Illinois area feel like getting some buddies together and buying a turn-key surplus business?


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La spinta dell’Europa per costruire una difesa comune efficace

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

L’Agenzia europea per la difesa (Eda) e lo Stato maggiore dell’Ue (Smeu) hanno avviato le consultazioni con i Ventisette per la stesura del prossimo Coordinated annual review on defence (Card). Questo programma, avviato nel 2017, è lo strumento principale con cui l’Agenzia europea per la difesa



Anduril si lancia anche nel dominio spaziale. Nel 2026 il primo test con un veicolo orbitale

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

Anduril e Impulse Space, startup specializzata nel trasporto orbitale, hanno annunciato che nel 2026 terranno una dimostrazione congiunta in orbita geosincrona con un veicolo spaziale altamente manovrabile. L’obiettivo è quello di testare le capacità di uno spacecraft



An AI-generated show on Russian TV includes Trump singing obnoxious songs and talking about golden toilets.#News


Russian State TV Launches AI-Generated News Satire Show


A television channel run by Russia’s Ministry of Defense is airing a program it claims is AI-generated. According to advertisements for the show, a neural network is picking the topics it wants to discuss, then uses AI to generate that video. It includes putting French President Emmaneul Macron in hair curlers and a pink robe, making Trump talk about golden toilets, and showing EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen singing a Soviet-era pop song while working in a factory.

The show—called Политукладчик or “PolitStacker,” according to a Google translation—airs every Friday on Zvezda, a television station owned by Russia’s Ministry of Defense. It’s hosted by “Natasha,” an AI avatar modeled on Russian journalist Nataliya Metlina. In a clip of the show, “Natasha” said that its resemblance to Metlina is intentional.

“I am the creation of artificial intelligence, entirely tuned to your informational preferences,” it said. “My task is to select all the political nonsense of the past week and fit it in your heads like candies in a little box.” The shows’ title sequence and advertisements show gold wrapped candies bearing the faces of politicians like Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky being sorted into a candy box.

“‘PolitStacker’ is the world’s first television program created by artificial intelligence,” said an ad for the show on the Russian social media network VK, according to Google translate. “The AI itself selects, analyzes, and comments on the most important news, events, facts, and actions—as it sees them. The editorial team’s opinion may not coincide with the AI’s (though usually…it does.) “‘PolitStacker’” is not just news, but a tough breakdown of political madness from a digital host who notices what others overlook.”

Data scientist Kalev Leetaru discovered the AI-generated Russian show as part of his work with the GDELT Project, which collaborates with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, a project that scans and stores television broadcasts from around the world. “If you just look at the show and you didn’t know it had AI associated with it, you would never guess that. It looks like a traditional propaganda show on Russian television," Leetaru told 404 Media. “If they are using AI to the degree that they say they are, even if it’s just to pick topics, they mastered that formula in a way that others have not.”

PolitStacker’s 40 minute runtime is full of silly political commentary, jokes, and sloppy AI deepfakes that look like they were pulled from a five-year-old Instagram reel. In one episode, Macron, with curlers in his hair, adjusts Zelensky’s tie ahead of a meeting at the Kremlin. Later, a smiling Macron bearing six pack abs stands in a closet in front of a clown costume and a leather jumpsuit. “Parts of it have an uncanny valley to it, parts of it are really really good. This is only their fourth episode and they’re already doing deep fake interviews with world leaders,” Leetaru said.
Image via the Internet Archive.
In one of the AI-generated Trump interviews, the American president talked about how he’d end the war in Ukraine by building a casino in Moscow with golden toilets. “And all the Russian oligarchs, they would all be inside. All their money would be inside. Problem solved. They would just play poker and forget about this whole war. A very bad deal for them, very distracting,” the deepfake Trump said.

Deepfake world leaders aren’t new and are pretty common across the internet. For Leetaru, the difference is that this is airing on a state-backed television station. “It’s still in parody form, but to my knowledge, no national television network show has even gone this far,” he told 404 Media. “Today it’s a parody video that’s pretty clearly a comedic interview. But, you know, how far will they take that? And does that inspire others to maybe step into spaces that they wouldn’t have before?”

Trump also loves AI and the AI aesthetic. Government social media accounts often post AI-generated slop pictures of Trump as the Pope or a Jedi. ICE and the DHS share pictures on official channels that paint over the horrifying reality of the administration's immigration policy with a sheen of AI slop. Trump shared an AI-generated video that imagined what Gaza would look like if he built a resort there. And he’s teamed with Perplexity to launch an AI powered search engine to Truth Social.

“PolitStacker” is a parody show, but Russian media is experimenting with less comedic AI avatars as well. Earlier this year, the state-owned news agency Sputnik began to air what it called the “Dugin Digital Edition.” In these little lectures, an AI version of Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin discusses the news of the day in English.

Last year, a Hawaiian newspaper, The Garden Island, teamed with an Israeli company to produce a news show on YouTube staffed by AI anchors. Reactions to the program were overwhelmingly negative, it brought in fewer than 1,000 viewers per episode, and The Garden Island stopped making the show a few months after it began.

In a twist of fate, Leetaru only discovered Moscow’s AI-generated show thanks to an AI system of his own. The GDELT project is a massive undertaking that records thousands of hours of data from across the world and it uses various AI systems to generate transcripts, translate them, and create an index of what’s been archived. “In this case I totally skimmed over what I thought was an ad for a propaganda show and then some candy commercial. Instead it ended up being something that’s fascinating,” he said.

But his AI indexing tool noted Zvezda's new show as an AI-generated program that sought to “analyze political follies of the outgoing week.” He took a second look and was glad he did. “That’s the power of machines being able to catch things and guide your eye towards that.”

What he saw disturbed him. “Yes, it’s one show on an obscure Russian government adjacent network using deep fakes for parody,” he said. “But the fact that a television network finally made that leap, to me, is a pivotal moment that I see as the tip of the iceberg.”


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A massive hack of a popular dashcam company; the sentencing of someone Sam has covered for years; and the mass firings around Charlie Kirk's assassination.

A massive hack of a popular dashcam company; the sentencing of someone Sam has covered for years; and the mass firings around Charlie Kirkx27;s assassination.#Podcast


Podcast: The (Hacked) Spy In Your Car


We start this week with Joseph’s investigation into Nexar, a popular dashcam company that was catastrophically hacked. Nexar is also uploading user footage to a publicly available map without some drivers’ knowledge. After the break, Sam tells us about her trip to San Diego to cover the sentencing of someone she has covered for years. In the subscribers-only section, we talk about the Charlie Kirk assassination and our reporting around that.
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La Sardegna è la seconda Regione in Italia ad approvare Liberi Subito


Una legge di civiltà, ora la approvino anche le altre Regioni


“Siamo grati alle Consigliere e Consiglieri della Regione Sardegna per avere approvato la nostra legge Liberi Subito, che definisce tempi e procedure per l’aiuto medico alla morte volontaria. La Sardegna è così la seconda Regione, dopo la Toscana, a dotarsi di questa legge di civiltà, volta a impedire il ripetersi di casi di persone che hanno dovuto attendere una risposta per mesi, o addirittura per anni, in una condizione di sofferenza insopportabile e irreversibile”, hanno dichiarato Filomena Gallo e Marco Cappato, rispettivamente Segretaria nazionale e Tesoriere dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni.

“Le regole approvate in Sardegna consentono la piena attuazione della sentenza della Corte costituzionale ‘Cappato-Antoniani’, che ha legalizzato in Italia il cosiddetto ‘aiuto al suicidio’ a determinate condizioni. Il nostro obiettivo è ora quello dell’approvazione della legge ‘Liberi Subito’ in tutte le Regioni italiane, dove il ‘suicidio assistito’ è comunque già legale (in forza delle sentenze della Consulta), ma senza che ci siano garanzie su tempi e sulle procedure per le persone malate e i medici. Continueremo anche a aiutare le persone a fare luce sui diritti alla fine della vita attraverso il nostro Numero Bianco 06 9931 3409, attraverso il quale diamo informazioni anche sul testamento biologico e sulle cure palliative. Proprio sul potenziamento delle cure palliative, sul quale siamo da sempre impegnati, siamo pronti ad allearci anche con chi si è battuto contro la nostra legge, perché il diritto all’autodeterminazione non è in alcun modo in contrasto col diritto alle cure”.

L'articolo La Sardegna è la seconda Regione in Italia ad approvare Liberi Subito proviene da Associazione Luca Coscioni.

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#Scuola, è stato pubblicato oggi l’Avviso da 45 milioni di euro per la dotazione di attrezzature nei Licei scientifici a indirizzo sportivo, con l’obiettivo di favorire la didattica laboratoriale e il miglioramento delle competenze nelle discipline s…


Stmicroelectronics investe in Francia. E in Italia?

L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Stmicroelectronics ha presentato la nuova tecnologia di confezionamento dei semiconduttori che verrà installata a Tours, in Francia. Intanto, lo stabilimento italiano di Catania ha problemi di approvvigionamento idrico e quello di



Engramma 222 - "Copyleft & internauti pirati" - Evento di Venerdì 19/9, h.18 a Palazzo Venezia, Sala del Refettorio

@Pirati Europei

Ingresso libero con prenotazione, sino ad esaurimento posti.

Il numero di Engramma 222 – Copyleft & internauti pirati – pone con urgenza la necessità di individuare i nodi critici della vexata quaestio del copyright, interpellando studiosi e ricercatori amici, sollecitati a una riflessione condivisa su questioni centrali per il presente e il futuro della produzione e della circolazione del sapere: lo stato dell’arte in merito all’accessibilità delle risorse digitali per chi studia e fa ricerca, in un contesto sempre più vincolato da barriere d’accesso; la critica allo statuto economico e giuridico di coloro che gestiscono le infrastrutture della conoscenza, dagli editori accademici alle grandi piattaforme, che spesso operano secondo pure logiche di mercato; la rivendicazione del diritto alla libera disseminazione e condivisione della conoscenza, intesa come principio politico e come condizione necessaria per il sapere.
Per solcare questo mare, abbiamo deliberatamente assunto una postura: quella del pirata.

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Sì UE alle sanzioni contro Israele ma restano fuori le armi.

Perfetto...


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L'odio della sinistra?


Apperò, il linguaggio violento della sinis... Ah no

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Piratenpartei macht Vorschlag zur Altersverifikation – datensparsamer und einfacher als mit der E-ID


Datenschutz

Die Piratenpartei ist beim W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, – dem internationalen Gremium zur Standardisierung von Web-Technologien) mit einem besonders datensparsamen Vorschlag zur Altersverifikation im Internet vorgestellig geworden. Das Verfahren arbeitet dezentral und lokal auf dem Gerät des Nutzers. Dadurch werden keinerlei persönliche Daten an den Betreiber einer Webseite übermittelt, während dieser zugleich vom Aufwand einer aufwendigen Altersprüfung entlastet wird.

Unser Konzept sieht vor, dass im Header des Webseiten-Quelltexts oder in App-Protokollen vermerkt wird, ob eine Altersverifikation erforderlich ist. Browser und Apps prüfen diese Angabe standardmässig und erkennen, ob ein Nutzer die zuvor festgelegte Altersfreigabe erfüllt. Diese Lösung lässt sich auch gerätebasiert umsetzen.

Pascal Fouquet, Vizepräsident der Piratenpartei Bern und ehemaliger Leiter des Referendums gegen das Jugendschutzgesetz (www.auszweiszwang-nein.ch): „Das ist eine klassische Win-win-win-Situation: keine Datensammelei über Nutzer, minimaler Aufwand für Webseitenbetreiber – einfach, sicher und schnell umgesetzt.

Die Lösung der Piratenpartei unterstreicht ihre führende Expertise an der Schnittstelle von Digitalisierung und Politik. Anstatt sich wie andere allein auf die E-ID als vermeintlich unverzichtbare Lösung für die Altersverifikation im Internet zu fixieren, bietet dieses Konzept eine deutlich einfachere, datensparsame und die Privatsphäre wahrende Alternative. Nutzer benötigen keine E-ID und müssen sich nicht auf jeder Webseite ausweisen. Webseitenbetreiber profitieren von minimalem Aufwand, da eine einzige Zeile Code ausreicht. Durch eine Integration beim W3C werden Browserhersteller nahtlos in die Umsetzung eingebunden, was diesen Vorschlag für alle Beteiligten attraktiv und zukunftsweisend macht.

Jorgo Ananiadis, Präsident der Piratenpartei Schweiz: „Die Piraten haben diese Idee bereits im Rahmen des Referendums gegen den Ausweiszwang im Internet vorgeschlagen. Umso mehr stellt sich die Frage, warum sie bislang niemand aufgegriffen hat. Unsere Lösung ist schlicht besser als jede Altersverifikation mit einer E-ID.“

Renato Sigg, Vorstand Piratenpartei Zürich: „Diese Lösung respektiert unsere liberale Gesellschaft und gibt Eltern gleichzeitig die nötigen Mittel zur Hand, um das Kindeswohl zu schützen. Sie ist eine deutlich datensparsamere und weniger aufwändige Variante einer Alterskontrolle als die E-ID.

Im Folgenden noch Kontext und einige technische Aspekte:
Das W3C arbeitet an einem einfachen Standard, mit dem jede Website im HTML-Header angeben kann, ob sie altersbeschränkte Inhalte enthält. Dies kann über ein simples Meta-Tag geschehen, das Kurzcodes wie p (Pornografie), v (Gewalt), n (keine Beschränkung) und weitere verwendet.
Auf Nutzerseite ist beispielsweise die Jugendschutzfunktion direkt im Browser integriert. Enthält eine Website eingeschränkte Inhalte, wird blokiert oder vor dem Zugriff ein Passwort abgefragt.
Entscheidend ist, dass dieser Vorgang lokal abläuft: Es werden keine persönlichen Daten an Websites übermittelt und es braucht keine zentrale Behörde. Die volle Kontrolle bleibt beim Nutzer.
Für Browserhersteller bedeutet dies lediglich eine kleine zusätzliche Funktionalität – der Aufwand bleibt überschaubar. Auch der Gesetzgeber könnte anstelle einer verpflichtenden Altersverifikation vorschreiben, dass Anbieter eine solche Kategorisierung im Header einfügen.

Alexis Roussel, ehemaliger Co-Präsident der Piratenpartei Schweiz: „Diese Lösung respektiert die Digitale Integrität der Menschen. Die E-ID nicht.

Weitere Hintergrundinformationen:
Es gibt bereits einen Tag „Restricted to adults“ (RTA), aber erstens definiert dieser nur, dass die Website für Kinder gesperrt ist, ohne eine detaillierte Kategorie wie Glücksspiel, Pornografie oder Gewalt anzugeben. Zweitens wird dieser Tag hauptsächlich von Kinderschutzsoftware oder Suchmaschinen von Drittanbietern verwendet, um ihre SafeSearch-Funktion zu filtern. Drittens ist „<meta name=“RATING“ content=“RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA“ />“ viel länger als nötig.
Ebenfalls gibt es meta-tags mit adult oder family_friendly, die aber auch nur von Suchmaschinen verwendet werden.
Der grosse Unterschied zu den bestehenden Systemen ist, dass in diesem Vorschlag einerseits die Kategorien feingranularer und multidimensional sind, andererseits die Umsetzung standardmässig im Browser oder Gerät sichergestellt wird.


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Una scuola agricola al limitare dell’Amazzonia brasiliana


@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Annamaria Panegalli ha novant’anni, ma conserva ancora la voglia di fare e la determinazione di quando era più giovane. I suoi occhi scuri sono profondi e la sua voce sicura. La incontro in un pomeriggio di pioggia, in modo inaspettato. Pensavo che fosse in Brasile,
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Possiamo mettere da parte anche questo papa, infatti cosa ci potevamo aspettare da un americano?


Bene, benissimo. Anzi no, malissimo: adesso possiamo affermare che Papa Leone XIV ha gettato definitivamente la maschera. Anche se ormai era evidente, visto il suo comportamento su quello che sta combinando israele.

Leggete con attenzione cosa ha appena detto:

"La Nato non ha cominciato nessuna guerra, i polacchi sono preoccupati perché si sentono che il loro spazio è stato invaso, è una situazione molto tesa".

Questo parla senza sapere, o sapendolo benissimo, che la storia dei droni russi in Polonia è una storia totalmente priva di prove e propagandistica.

Però il punto secondo me sta da un'altra parte, ed è sostanzialmente quello che hanno fatto Biden, Ursula, Trump, Rutte, Stoltenberg, Meloni e company: descrivere la Nato in luce positiva. Come la vittima. Come l'aggredito. Come quella che non c'entra assolutamente nulla. Gravissimo. E anche vergognoso!

Papa Francesco parlava di Nato che abbaiava alle porte della Russia. Questo benedice e assolve erga omnes la Nato, che è l'organizzazione più pericolosa, criminale e guerrafondaia mai esistita.

Dopo l'accoglienza riservata a Herzog in Vaticano, direi che tutti i pezzi del puzzle sono andati al loro posto.

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Come si arrabbiano quando gli si dà torto, in più si nota come FI e PD siano la stessa cosa.

Lombardia, bocciato obbligo vaccinale per virus sinciziale: ira FI e Pd • Imola Oggi
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Stefano Tamburini – Xerocomics The Art of Stefano Tamburini
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Segnaliamo volentieri ai nostri lettori di questo splendido volume dedicato all’arte di Stefano Tamburini. Si tratta di un volume imprescindibile per chi ama il fumetto d’autore e la cultura visiva alternativa. Questa antologia definitiva celebra il fumettista, grafico e innovatore radicale Stefano Tamburini, ripercorrendo l’intero arco


Why Europe’s new tech laws have the world on edge


Trump and the global far-right are trying to discredit Europe’s tech laws with misinformation and political pressure, fearing that these regulations might disrupt their ability to undermine democracy. If Europe wants to safeguard its democracy and its credibility as a global regulatory leader in tech, the European Commission needs to enforce these law swiftly and decisively.

The post Why Europe’s new tech laws have the world on edge appeared first on European Digital Rights (EDRi).

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Presentato il primo LLM (Large Language Model) che lavora come il cervello umano, un sistema di intelligenza artificiale progettato per usare meno energia...
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Pordenone Linux User Group aps – PNLUG - Corso Self-Hosting


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Segnalato da Linux Italia e pubblicato sulla comunità Lemmy @GNU/Linux Italia
Desideri riappropriarti della tua sovranità digitale, gestendo in autonomia i tuoi servizi online, proprio come un vero sysadmin? Allora, abbiamo […]




Valerio Billeri, fra Roma e Bisanzio
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Un paio di mesi fa avevamo parlato su Free Zone Magazine di Lo-Fi, l’ultimo album di Valerio Billeri, e sottolineavamo come la sua musica sia un fiume con molteplici affluenti. Questo ricco scambio di battute, avvenuto un po’ dopo, conferma questa immagine del cantautore romano… Sai Valerio, mi piacerebbe cominciare parlando un po’ di Lo-Fi. […]
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Lemonheads, un altro ritorno a vent’anni dal disco precedente: in uscita Love Chant
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Il frontman Evan Dando ha co-scritto il brano con l’ex compagno di band dei Blake Babies John Strohm. Il brano cattura il classico sound dei Lemonheads – chitarre graffianti e l’inconfondibile voce baritonale di Dando – ma con una maturità che deriva dai 20 anni trascorsi dall’ultimo disco. Love


PODCAST. Sabra e Shatila. “Un filo lega il massacro del 1982 alla distruzione di Gaza”


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Intervista a Flavio Novara presidente del “Comitato per non dimenticare Sabra e Shatila” in questi giorni a Beirut nell'anniversario del massacro
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Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.#News


DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing


The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice and hosted on a DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according to an archive of the page saved by the Wayback Machine.

“The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs is currently reviewing its websites and materials in accordance with recent Executive Orders and related guidance,” reads a message on the page where the study was formerly hosted. “During this review, some pages and publications will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”

Shortly after Donald Trump took office he issued an executive order that forced government agencies to scrub their sites of any mention of “diversity,” “gender,” “DEI,” and other “forbidden words” and perceived notions of “wokeness.” The executive order impacted every government agency, including NASA, and was a huge waste of engineers’ time.

We don’t know why the study about far-right extremist violence was removed recently, but it comes immediately after the assassination of conservative personality Charlie Kirk, accusations from the administration that the left is responsible for most of the political violence in the country, and a renewed commitment from the administration to crack down on the “radical left.”

“For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals,” Trump said in a speech after Kirk’s death. “This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now. My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it.”

Elon Musk, who owns X, recently tweeted that he was going to “fix” the platform’s AI assistant Grok after it cited research that showed right-wing violence was more common than left-wing violence: “My apologies, we are fixing this cringe idiocy by Grok,” he said.

Vice President JD Vance, who guest hosted Kirk’s podcast on Monday, also vowed to go after “growing and powerful minority on the far left.”

“Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives,” the study said. “In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.”

The DOJ did not immediately respond to our request for comment. Steven Chermak, one of the study’s co-authors, declined to comment.


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The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" proposes a total ban on porn in the state, and also targets the existence of trans people online, content like erotic ASMR, and selling VPNs in the state.#porn #ageverification #laws #lawsuits


Michigan Lawmakers Are Attempting to Ban Porn Entirely


A bill introduced by Michigan lawmakers last week would ban pornography, ASMR, depictions of transgender people, and VPNs for anyone using the internet in the state.

House Bill 4938, called the “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act,” would prohibit distribution of “certain material on the internet that corrupts the public morals,” the bill states. It was introduced on September 11 by five Republican representatives: Josh Schriver, Joseph Pavlov, Matthew Maddock, James DeSana, and Jennifer Wortz.

The bill would forbid all “pornographic material,” which the lawmakers define as “content, digital, streamed, or otherwise distributed on the internet, the primary purpose of which is to sexually arouse or gratify, including videos, erotica, magazines, stories, manga, material generated by artificial intelligence, live feeds, or sound clips.”

The bill’s authors list out the specific things they consider pornographic material, including:

  • Vaginal or anal intercourse
  • Fellatio or cunnilingus
  • Masturbation
  • Ejaculation or orgasm
  • Penetration with sexual devices
  • Group sex
  • Bondage, domination, or sadomasochism.
  • Acts involving bodily fluids for sexual arousal.
  • Erotic autonomous sensory meridian response content, moaning, or sensual voice content [ASMR]
  • Animated, virtual, or sexual activity generated by artificial intelligence
  • Depictions of characters acting or resembling minors in sexual contexts.
  • Any other pornographic material

The lawmakers also define any depiction or description of trans people as pornographic, and therefore, banned on platforms operating in the state, including anything “that includes a disconnection between biology and gender by individual of 1 biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex by means of attire, cosmetology, or prosthetics, or as having a reproductive nature contrary to the individual's biological sex.”

Platform operators that “knowingly distribute” any of the above content to anyone accessing it from Michigan would be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment up to 20 years or a fine of up to $100,000, or both. If the platform hosts more than “100 pieces” of the above, that escalates to 25 years and $125,000. On top of being a felony, hosting that content would open platforms and internet service providers up to civil fines of up to $500,000 for “each violation.”

Sites would be required to change their terms of service to prohibit the above material, and implement moderation tools that use AI and human mods to find and remove pornographic content.

The bill would require internet service providers servicing Michigan to implement "mandatory filtering technology” and “actively monitor and block known circumvention tools,” which would include VPNs—the most popular workaround for people in states with age verification laws in place. It also would ban the promotion or sale of VPNs in Michigan.

The Egg Yolk Principle: Human Sexuality Will Always Outsmart Prudish Algorithms and Hateful Politicians
Anti-porn laws can’t stop porn, but they can stop free speech. In the meantime, people will continue to get off to anything and everything.
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As Michigan local news outlet Fox 2 noted yesterday, Schriver has been talking about wanting to ban porn entirely in the state for a long time. Earlier this year, he said "shutting down the porn industry would be a crushing blow to the human trafficking industry." Porn is legal and constitutionally protected by the First Amendment in the US, but many lawmakers in this country have been pushing to change that for years. It’s also basically impossible to pin down what content will “sexually arouse or gratify” every person who uses the internet; people are getting off to a billion different kinds of content that doesn’t even include bodily fluids or genitals.

Nearly 30 states have passed and enacted laws that require all visitors to porn sites, including adults, to verify their ages with a government ID or face scan to access porn. In some states, such as Wyoming and South Dakota, those laws extend to mainstream, non-porn platforms like Bluesky. Michigan lawmakers have introduced two age verification bills: one for device-based age verification and one that mimics the many laws that have passed in states across the country. Existing age verification laws—which are uniformly invasive of people’ privacy and ineffective at actually stopping children from viewing harmful content—typically have bipartisan support, but Michigan’s Democratic senate and its governor Gretchen Whitmer will ultimately decide whether the much more extreme, Republican-backed “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act” will become law.




OpenAI introduces new age prediction and verification methods after wave of teen suicide stories involving chatbots.#News


ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID for Age Verification


OpenAI has announced it is introducing new safety measures for ChatGPT after the a wave of stories and lawsuits accusing ChatGPT and other chatbots of playing a role in a number of teen suicide cases. ChatGPT will now attempt to guess a user’s age, and in some cases might require users to share an ID in order to verify that they are at least 18 years old.

“We know this is a privacy compromise for adults but believe it is a worthy tradeoff,” the company said in its announcement.

“I don't expect that everyone will agree with these tradeoffs, but given the conflict it is important to explain our decisionmaking,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X.

In August, OpenAI was sued by the parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April. The lawsuit alleges that alleges that the ChatGPT helped him write the first draft of his suicide note, suggested improvements on his methods, ignored early attempts and self-harm, and urged him not to talk to adults about what he was going through.

“Where a trusted human may have responded with concern and encouraged him to get professional help, ChatGPT pulled Adam deeper into a dark and hopeless place by assuring him that ‘many people who struggle with anxiety or intrusive thoughts find solace in imagining an ‘escape hatch’ because it can feel like a way to regain control.’”

In August the Wall Street Journal also reported a story about a 56-year-old man who committed a murder-suicide after ChatGPT indulgedhis paranoia. Today, the Washington Postreported another story about another lawsuit alleging that a Character AI chatbot contributed to a 13-year-old girl’s death by suicide.

OpenAI introduced parental controls to ChatGPT earlier in September, but has now introduced new, more strict and invasive security measures.

In addition to attempting to guess or verify a user’s age, ChatGPT will now also apply different rules to teens who are using the chatbot.

“For example, ChatGPT will be trained not to do the above-mentioned flirtatious talk if asked, or engage in discussions about suicide of self-harm even in a creative writing setting,” the announcement said. “And, if an under-18 user is having suicidal ideation, we will attempt to contact the users’ parents and if unable, will contact the authorities in case of imminent harm.”

OpenAI’s post explains that it is struggling to manage an inherent problem with large language models that 404 Media has tracked for several years. ChatGPT used to be a far more restricted chatbot that would refuse to engage users on a wide variety of issues the company deemed dangerous or inappropriate. Competition from other models, especially locally hosted and so-called “uncensored” models, and a political shift to the right which sees many forms of content moderation as censorship, has caused OpenAI to loosen those restrictions.

“We want users to be able to use our tools in the way that they want, within very broad bounds of safety,” Open AI said in its announcement. The position it seemed to have landed on given these recent stories about teen suicide, is that it wants to “‘Treat our adult users like adults’ is how we talk about this internally, extending freedom as far as possible without causing harm or undermining anyone else’s freedom.

OpenAI is not the first company that’s attempting to use machine learning to predict the age of its users. In July, YouTube announced it will use a similar method to “protect” teens from certain types of content on its platform.


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Stezzano – Incontro informativo sulle DAT: “Scegliere oggi consapevolmente per quando non potrò decidere”


Giovedì 30 ottobre 2025 alle ore 20:30, presso la Sala Multimediale Cascinetto di Stezzano (BG), si terrà l’incontro informativo dal titolo:
“Scegliere oggi consapevolmente per quando non potrò decidere”, un momento di approfondimento dedicato alle Disposizioni Anticipate di Trattamento (DAT).
Ad intervenire Marzio Remus, avvocato e coordinatore della Cellula Coscioni Brescia.

L’iniziativa, promossa da Croce Oro Stezzano con il patrocinio del Comune di Stezzano, si propone di fornire strumenti concreti per orientarsi nel delicato ambito del fine vita, dando valore alla libertà di scelta e alla pianificazione anticipata delle cure.

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L'articolo Stezzano – Incontro informativo sulle DAT: “Scegliere oggi consapevolmente per quando non potrò decidere” proviene da Associazione Luca Coscioni.



Solidarietà ad Antonella Bundu: basta odio, basta razzismo


Esprimiamo piena solidarietà ad Antonella Bundu, candidata presidente della Regione Toscana per Toscana Rossa, destinataria di un attacco ignobile e razzista su X. Con Antonella ci legano anni di attivismo e battaglie comuni portate avanti a Firenze, nel solco dei diritti, della giustizia sociale e dell’uguaglianza.

Quello che Antonella denuncia è l’ennesima dimostrazione di quanto in Italia persista un linguaggio d’odio che attinge a stereotipi coloniali, xenofobi, sessisti, omolesbobitrasfobici, alimentando un clima tossico che mina la nostra democrazia.

Quando una donna, nata e cresciuta a Firenze, viene definita “non italiana” o destinataria di insulti come “torna in Africa”, non siamo di fronte solo a un’offesa personale, ma a un attacco alla cittadinanza, alla Costituzione e ai valori antifascisti su cui la nostra Repubblica è fondata.

Non è tollerabile che nel nostro Paese trovino ancora spazio politico e mediatico formazioni, simboli e linguaggi che richiamano direttamente al fascismo. Lo ribadiamo con chiarezza, come fatto in tutti questi anni e unendoci ad Antonella: ogni organizzazione che si richiami al fascismo deve essere sciolta, così come previsto dalla Costituzione e dalle leggi vigenti.

Come Possibile abbiamo scelto di sostenere Antonella e la lista Toscana Rossa, e denunciamo con forza questo clima di violenza politica e razzista e rilanciamo la necessità di un impegno comune, istituzionale e sociale, contro l’odio e contro ogni forma di discriminazione. Non esistono più vie di mezzo, scuse o alibi, o ci si dichiara tuttә antifasciste o non lo si è.

Difendere Antonella significa difendere la Toscana e l’Italia che credono nella dignità di tuttә, nella giustizia sociale, nell’uguaglianza. È una responsabilità collettiva che riguarda ogni cittadina e cittadino, e in primo luogo le istituzioni.

Francesca Druetti, Gianmarco Capogna, Toscana Possibile

L'articolo Solidarietà ad Antonella Bundu: basta odio, basta razzismo proviene da Possibile.




Putin in divisa alle esercitazioni russe-bielorusse

cavolo... e ii che pensavo che fino ad adesso fosse in modalità pacifista...



Internet è una macchina di manipolazione: attento a non interpretare il burattino nella guerra di propaganda di qualcun altro.

Siamo più polarizzati che mai. Le conversazioni si sono trasformate in litigi. Le idee contrastanti sembrano minacce, non qualcosa su cui discutere.

Ma c'è una cosa che molti non capiscono: privacy e sorveglianza sono strettamente collegate. La maggior parte delle persone non riesce mai a collegare questi puntini.

@Etica Digitale (Feddit)

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Da Haaretz:

A team of independent experts commissioned by the UN's Human Rights Council has concluded that "Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza" in a report issued Tuesday, which Israel rejected as "distorted and false."

"It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention," the report said, adding that "responsibility for the atrocity crimes lies with" Netanyahu, as well as Israeli President Isaac Herzog and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, whom the report concluded had all incited the commission of genocide.